Specialist - Contract Management

What Youll Be Doing:

In this role, you will be part of the Verizon Global Legal Services team, an innovative legal initiative. You will work closely with lawyers, business partners, contract-management members, and other stakeholders with international and US-based teams and manage a team of lawyers in India. Your responsibilities will include negotiating contracts, drafting transactional documents, contract management, performing data privacy impact assessments, and contributing to other legal practice areas and subject-matter domains based on your demonstrated abilities and experience.

• Managing projects for various legal practice areas, including Business, Consumer, Global Services, Compliance & Ethics, Sourcing, Privacy, Real Estate, Network & Technology, among others.
• Leading, managing and guiding a team of lawyers supporting these areas, contract management and other.
• Enabling business partners and stakeholders by way of drafting, reviewing, negotiation, and finalization of agreements.
• Performing second level review for complex and critical engagements.

• Negotiating and finalizing agreements in accordance with Verizons requirements, policies and guidelines.
• Preparing engagement SOPs, training, and related documents.
• Ensuring adherence to expected turnaround times, service level agreements and requirements.
• Using readily available as well as emerging legal and project management technology to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Assisting the team in handling queries from and disagreements with stakeholders and other parties.

• Advising business partners on contract related queries and issues.
• Identifying potential risks and making recommendations to business partners and other lawyers.
• Optimizing and improving legal processes to drive efficiency.
• Taking complete ownership during the knowledge transfer phase for engagements

What Were Looking For:

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience, in Legal domain.
• Knowledge of policies, standards, and processes for managing and administering contracts, with the ability to use applicable processes and practices for managing a variety of contractual agreements.
• Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling an organizations exposure to risks of various kinds, with the ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Good understanding of contract and other related laws.
• Strong negotiation acumen.
• Prudent decision-making skills and excellent legal judgment.
• Ability to balance business and contract goals against legal, business, policy and reputational risks and make sound decisions to take appropriate risks.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
• Team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Commitment to integrity

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail to identify root cause and provide innovative technology driven solutions.
• Technical acumen in Legal tools, AI, and other emerging technologies.
• Familiarity with common project management approaches such as PMP or the Agile Framework.
• Experience in global or U.S. agreements